Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Biswas, Rana -- Adjunct Associate Professor
2129 Coover Hall & 244 Applied Sciences Complex I & A506 Physics Hall
Ames IA 50011		 Phone: 515-294-8765; 4-7732; 4-6987

 biswasr@iastate.edu
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Education

PhD, Physics, Cornell University (1984)
MS, Physics, Cornell University (1982)
M.Sc., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1978)

Research Interests

Photovoltaic materials; solar cells; photonic crystals and devices; sensors; computational electromagnetics; and semiconductors and nanoscale materials

Core Research Areas: Microelectronics and photonics; communications and signal processing

Strategic Research Area: Small-Scale Technology

Selected Publications

Biswas, R., D. Zhou, I. Puscasu, E. Johnson, A. Taylor, and W. Zhao. “Sharp Thermal Emission and Absorption from Conformally Coated Metallic Photonic Crystal with Triangular Lattice.” Applied Physics Letters 93, no. 063307 (2008).

Zhou, D. and R. Biswas. “Photonic Crystal Enhanced Light-trapping in Thin-film Solar Cells.” Journal of Applied Physics 103, no. 093102 (2008).

Biswas, R., C. Christensen, J. Muehlmeier, G. Tuttle, and K-M. Ho. “Waveguide Bends and Circuits in Three-dimensional Photonic Crystals”, Photonics and Nanostructures 6, no. 208 (2008).

Sigalas, M. and R. Biswas. “Slot Defect in Three-dimensional Photonic Crystals.” Physics Review B 78, no. 033101 (2008).

Biswas, R., S. Neginhal, C. G. Ding, I. Puscasu, and E. Johnson. “Mechanisms Underlying Extraordinary Transmission in Sub-wavelength Hole Arrays.” Journal of the Optical Society of America B 24, (2007): 2489-95. 

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